[Sunny the Model A]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

nkaminar: I'll try gringing off the adjustment arms. Sunny: the rods are all disconnected. The drum goes about half way across the shoes then stops. I tried turning in the adjusters till they stopped then backed them off all the way but still too tight. I tried tightening the axel bolt all the way in. It went in all the way but very tight.

Gotcha, if the drum went on halfway fine then stopped, that sounds like the emergency brake band hitting the drum and not going into the inner drum surface. if you can, as a test remove the band and try it again. if it goes on easy, then you found the problem.